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Question

________ with someone else's email account is now a very serious offence.

The correct answer is
Tampering

Email Tampering: Understanding Why It's a Serious Offense

The question asks for the correct term describing an action against someone else's email account that is considered a serious offense. Let's analyze the options:

  • Tampering means to interfere with something in order to cause damage or make unauthorized alterations. Tampering with someone's email account involves unauthorized access, modification, or disruption, which is illegal and a serious offense.
  • Involving simply means taking part in something, which is too general and doesn't necessarily imply illegality.
  • Assisting means helping someone. While assistance could be part of a crime, the act itself isn't the offense described.
  • Incubating relates to developing or hatching something, which is irrelevant in this context.

Therefore, Tampering is the most accurate word to describe the act of interfering with someone else's email account, which is legally recognized as a serious offense.

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Important Questions from Basic Vocabulary

  1. Choose the most appropriate alternative from the options given below to complete the following sentence:
    The administrators went on to implement yet another unreasonable measure, arguing that the measures were already _______ and one more would hardly make a difference.

  2. If '→' denotes increasing order of intensity, then the meaning of the words [sick → infirm → moribund] is analogous to [silly → → daft]. Which one of the given options is appropriate to fill the blank?
  3. Choose the appropriate word/phrase, out of the four options given below, to complete the following sentence: 
    Frogs _______________

  4. Inhaling the smoke from a burning _________ could _________ you quickly.
  5. "The horror! The horror!" - these are the last words of ________.
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